The Butter Tree: Tales of Bruh Rabbit

by Mary E. Lyons, Mireille Vautier (Illustrator)

Now, for the first time, young readers who love to hear about Bruh Rabbit's adventures can read the stories on their own. Award-winning author Mary Lyons uncovered the first transcriptions of six South Carolina stories and used her experience as a reading teacher to turn them into easy-to-read tales for children.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1995

About the author

Mary E. Lyons, a former teacher and librarian, became a full-time writer in 1993. She is the author of nineteen books for young readers published by Scribner, Atheneum, Henry Holt, Houghton Mifflin and Oxford University Press.

Born and raised in the American South, Mary Lyons lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband, Paul. Her publications for adults include The Blue Ridge Tunnel: A Remarkable Engineering Feat in Antebellum Virginia (History Press, 2014), The Virginia Blue Ridge Railroad (History Press, 2015), and Slave Labor on Virginia’s Blue Ridge Railroad (History Press, 2020).